A Shepherd and staff at the well to weave a garment from sack cloth. Sheer truth from the wool and a new garment is formed from on high into fine linen.. A cradle for a new born in the hands of a Mother clothed in the Sun.
As the same moon orbits the same earth, yet it is called a "new moon" when it has completed it's journey around the earth. Jacob had 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel, "12 new moons"; "12 dark moons"; which represents 12 months. There are two powerful lights in the firmament of heaven that bear witness to the "new moon", even the number of stars, the number of the descendents of Abraham. At the north and south poles; there are 6 months of uninterrupted daylight; 6 months of uninterrupted darkness, the sun rises and sun sets once a year. 1 Day and 1 night = one year. How do those who live on the north and south poles keep Sabbath after 6 years?
That only happens EXACTLY at the poles - and no one lives there. But at the North pole, the sun sets on Sept 21, with the top of it sinking below the horizon 4 days later. Then you have about 3 weeks of twilight. In the spring, you have 3-4 weeks of dawn with the sun fully up about March 21.
What about at the article circle, 82 days of uninterrupted daylight, 60 days uninterrupted darkness. Of course in Alaska, the balance between day and night is much different. You may have only 5 hours of daylight, during some parts of the year. Keeping Shabbat would be much different.
According to the Word it isn't necessary to overthink the obvious when the SUN and MOON become the means for keeping God's calendar. Without the light of the MOON how would the Israelites know the beginning of the next month? Common sense supported with scripture doesn't necessiate overthinking.
Do you understand the new moon festival? The moon is celebrated, when the moon reflects no light, dark moon = new month. The moon is not a source of light!
Have you been listening to Nova and National Geographic's evolutionary theology and other attempts to debunk the Bible ?
Will you distort the scriptures to perpetuate unnecessary confusion? The moon is not a source of light, like the sun, the sun is listed first in all the scriptures you posted in fact the moon does not reflect light because the sun is darkened. The moon is mentioned only after and in conjunction with the sun. Why doesn't the moon shine her powerful and glorious light after the sun is darkened?
The ancients celebrated when the moon was darkened, it represented a new month. How did the ancients know this with no knowledge of the solar system? These things can be observed in the firmament of heaven. How did the ancients know how to count years, with no knowledge how the earth orbit the sun? I think the ancients knew how to observe the stars in the firmament of heaven, the sun is a star, we know he created the stars also.
Truer words were never spoken. Here's my 'Like" and hope you receive many more. Mercy actually agrees with you. Me thinks he's just being a stickler for grammatical exegesis. Apparently upset that Mark 13:24 doesn't read as follows ...
A fifth grader would also understand that the moon is not a star or powerful light but a planetary satellite that orbits the earth.
You are correct! Take for example the wise men that followed the "star" to Bethlehem. And of course we can all agree that the ancients referred to what we now call the sun as a star
This LIGHT that existed the first three days was divorced from darkness. What fellowship does LIGHT have with darkness? When the LIGHT switch is turned on, the darkness in the room flees. Yet this LIGHT that was good, the first LIGHT, the LIGHT from day one, was married then separated from darkness. This LIGHT was viewed as being good, prior to its divorce from darkness. I agree the two powerful lights are in the firmament of heaven as you have enLIGHTened me to this fact, possibly the north and south pole . I voted with you in the poll, you are not alone (all one).
Since the sun is a star, it can not be considered one of the two powerful lights observed in the firmament of heaven.You are correct! Take for example the wise men that followed the "star" to Bethlehem. And of course we can all agree that the ancients referred to what we now call the sun as a star
Would this translation be closer to your liking or do you object to the word "her" ?
Mark 13:24 ASV
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give (reflect) her light,
Of the twelve American astronauts that have walked on the moon ... Buzz, Neil, Pete, Alan, Edgar, Alan, James, David, John, Charles, Eugene and Harrison not one of them ever mentioned anything about an intense light of the north and south pole. Actually Mercy seems to be contradicting himself referring to the north and south pole as "two powerful lights" when he knows all too well that the light coming from the north and south poles of the earth are reflected sunlight.
If you are referring to a 24 hour day it very well would've could've been the AFTERGLOW following the first 3 days after the BIG BANG. In due time the sun was brighter than the afterglow that we know as daylight approximately a 12 hours a day.
